Courtney Barnett Quotes
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I love my bandmates, and they're my friends, and even though we had fun and got to tour and I got to play the drums a lot, which I'll always appreciate, we had a really rough time. We toured and tried to get people to come to our shows and put out records, and we really struggled.
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#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?
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An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.
